Synonyms for poverty
ˈpɒv ər tipover·ty

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1. poverty

   Poverty denotes strictly lack of property or adequate means of support, but in common use is a relative term denoting any condition below that of easy, comfortable living; privation denotes a condition of painful lack of what is useful or desirable, tho not to the extent of absolute distress; indigence is lack of ordinary means of subsistence; destitution is lack of the comforts, and in part even of the necessaries of life; penury is especially cramping poverty, possibly not so sharp as destitution, but continuous, while that may be temporary; pauperism is such destitution as throws one upon organized public charity for support; beggary and mendicancy denote poverty that appeals for indiscriminate private charity.

   Synonyms:
   beggary, destitution, distress, indigence, mendicancy, need, pauperism, penury, privation, want

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1. poverty

   Synonyms:
   want, need, indigence, destitution

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1. poverty, poorness, impoverishmentnoun

   the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

   Synonyms:
   exiguity, leanness, impoverishment, pauperization, poorness, meagreness, meagerness, scantiness, pauperisation, scantness

   Antonyms:
   wealthiness, wealth

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1. povertynoun

   Synonyms:
   indigence, penury, want, destitution, need, necessity, privation, distress, straitened circumstances

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1. povertynoun

   Synonyms:
   penury, indigence, need, destitution, privation, neediness, impecuniosity, pauperism, deficiency, paucity, infecundity, dearth, lack, meagerness, sterility, barrenness

   Associated words:
   impoverish, impoverishment

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1. List of paraphrases for "poverty":

   poor, misery, pauvreté, pobreza, destitution, impoverishment, impoverished, indigent, deprivation, indigence, poorest, anti-poverty

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1. Mother Teresa:

   We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

2. Peter Hotez:

   Poverty is seldom evenly distributed across the country. Poverty clusters in pockets. It clusters in northeastern Brazil, it clusters in northern Argentina, it clusters in southern Mexico, it clusters in southwestern China, well, it's the same thing in the USA. Poverty is clustered in the American South.

3. Marian Tupy:

   Some of the anti-capitalist impulse goes back to that hunter-gatherer mentality and not comprehending the complexity of the market economy, the complexity outpaced our ability to understand it. But even those who don’t understand markets should open their eyes and acknowledge its benefits : Worldwide, wherever economic freedom is allowed, millions of people have lifted themselves out of stoop labor and miserable poverty. Of course, not everyone can reap the benefits of markets. The sick, the mentally ill and other truly helpless people need a hand. But why assume government must provide that help ? Government does n’t do anything very well. Why not let private charity handle it ? I once assumed there was too much poverty for private charity to make much of a difference. But now I realize there is plenty of money, and private charity would do much more if government did n’t discourage it. When the welfare state took over poverty relief, it crowded out.

4. Lyndon B. Johnson:

   Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

5. Thomas Merton:

   It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head and no worry about the rent. But if you want them to believe youtry to share some of their poverty and see if you can accept it as Gods will yourself!